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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10

Chapter 67: THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN.
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This volume collects several early seventeenth-century stage plays that blend comedy and tragicomedy. Action ranges from tempest-driven shipwrecks and desert-island survival to inns and courtly settings, where mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, revenge plots, and duels unfold. Plotting alternates tense situations with witty dialogue and comic relief as characters test loyalty, honor, and social pretension. Through abrupt reversals of fortune and reconciliations, the plays examine desire, deception, and the uncertain limits of virtue amid chaotic circumstances.

THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN.

A = 1634 quarto. B = 2nd folio.

(A) THE | TWO | NOBLE | KINSMEN: Presented at the Blackfriers | by the Kings Majesties servants, | with great applause: | Written by the memorable Worthies | of their time;| {Mr. John Fletcher, and Mr. William Shakspeare.} Gent. | Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, for John Waterson: | and are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne | in Pauls Churchyard. 1634.

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End of Vol. IX.


CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Transcriber's Notes:

This text has been preserved as in the original, including archaic and inconsistent spelling, punctuation and grammar, except that obvious printer's errors have been silently corrected.